"The ne to certain our border is urgent.

"The ne to certain our border is urgent."

-President George W Bush, articulate utterance to the nation, May 15 2006

NOT INCLUDED

"These bills bring a usual sense solution to the long-term institutional bias within the Department of Defense that has relegated the Militia or National Guard to a seat in the kitchen while the family feasts in diction in the dining room."

-Retired Brig. Gen Stephen M Koper NGAUS president, National Guard Empowerment Act pres interview on Capitol Hill, May 10 2006

TWO HATS, pair VIEWS

"Putting on my 'public official' hat, I think that a fate of this exercise [patrolling the border] is terribly transparent. It is political. I will just leave it at that. Putting in succession my [soldier] hat, I am going to say, 'We are going to do a great job'"

-Texas State Rep Rick Noriega, a Texas National Guard lieutenant colonel "Noriega brings on His Soldier Hat, " Houston Chronicle, May 27 2006

BIFFLE'S HEROES

"At Dover last year couple soldiers came in with Gen [H Steven] Blum [National Guard Bureau chief]. single had a prosthetic leg; the other was carrying shrapnel inside him. And we won that day, with them in our pit area. Giving them the brute Mile trophy, that was comely neat."

-National Guard Car Driver Greg BHfIe, "Military drives to enlist at NASCAR venues" USAToday, May 24 2006

THE REAL ZARQAWI?

"Wearing of recent origin Balance sneakers with his uniform, encircleed by supposedly competent subordinates who grab the choleric barrel of a just-fired machine fire-arm [we] have a warrior leader [Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi, who doesn't understand to what degree to operate his weapon scheme and has to rely upon his subordinates to clear a weapon stoppage. It makes you wonder"

-Maj. Gen Rick Lynch spokesman for U forces in Baghdad, describing for the pres captured video of the Iraq insurgent leader, May 4 2006

CHANGE OF VENUE

"Every National Guardsman knows they have 15 days of annual training that they're going to have to perform during the year. The sole difference is, they didn't know they were going to have to perform it in succession the Southwest border."

-Lt Gen H Steven Blum National Guard Bureau chief, Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing, May 17 2006

RESERV TABLE

"We have individual Army, one Air Force, the same Marine Corps, one Navy. To divide our Air Force, to divide our Army by means of having an additional member of the joint chiefs who exhibits a segment of both of those services would do a disservice."

-Gen Peter Pace, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in succession Defense hearing. May 17, 2006

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